Paul brun latrige



(No Model) No. 573,338. Patented De0l15, 1896.

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PAUL BRUN LATRIGE, OF ST. ETIENNE, FRANCE.

MAGAZIN E-PISTOL.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 573,338 dated December '15, 1896.

Application filed August 14, 2894. Serial No. 520,326. (No model.) Patented in Belgium February 8,

in France February 13, 1894,11). 236,149, and in Italy March 31,189}, No. 36,005.

To a/J/ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, PAUL BRUN LATRIGE,a citizen. of the French Republic, residing at St. Etienne, in France, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Firearms, (for which Letters Patent have been obtained in France, No. 286,149, dated February 13, 1894;; in Italy, No. 36,005, dated March 31, 18.94, and in Belgium, No. 108,488, dated February 8, 1894,) of which the following'is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention has relation to fireams, and among the objects in view is to provide a firearm wherein the rapid and automatic loading and quick firing of a small firearm may be elfected, and also the automatic ejection of the spent cartridge-shell.

My invention consists in the novel construction, arrangement, and combination of parts, as hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the drawings, and pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings, Figure ].'is a side View of a s1nall-arm embodying my improvements; Fig. 2, an opposite side view thereof; Fig. 3, a front view; Fig. 4, a rear view; Fig. 5, a plan view of Fig. 1; Fig. 6, an under side view of Fig. 2. Fig. 7 is a vertical sectional view. Fig. 8 is a detached view'of the sliding barrel. Fig. 0 is a view showing the hammer or firing-pin in side and front elevations. Fig. 10 is a view showing the cartridge-elevator in side and plan views.

' I would state that whether musket, carbine, rifle, sporting-gun, or walking-stick gun to which my improvements are applied the system is identical except as regards the length of barrel entering into the body of the piece, and the form of the magazine.

The mechanism consists of six principal parts-viz., the body or stock G, comprising the outer barrel or sleeve M, magazine B, and the chamber L, containing the percussion device; the movable or sliding barrel A, carryin g the ope rating-ring D the restorin g-sprin g R; the hammer or firing-pin P, with its coiled springE; the magazine B, with its cartridge-v elevator F, and the ejector II.

In the drawings I show my improvements applied to a pistol and it be a pistol,

will so describe the p be understood that said improvements may also be applied to other firearms as well.

The sleeve M, which is preferably formed in one piece with the body or stock G, incloses the barrelAand the restoring coiled spring R.

same, although it will The receix'er 1), into which slides longitudinally the rear orbreech end a of the barrel A, is provided with a lateral orifice f to permit the passage of the tooth (Z It is into this receiver that the cartridges 0 are pushed by the elevator F from the magazine. This receiver is provided in its rear wall with two vertical grooves '7' 1', which serve for the guidance of the empty cartridgeshells, and which are prolongeddownward to the bottom of the magazin f 6 indicates an aperture through which the cartridge-shells are ejected.

L indicates a chamber formed in the stock to receive the hammer.

p is a passage-way for the trigger or operating-ring:

J is simply a plate removably closing, one side of the magazine and is removably secured in place by a screw 1'. Whenthe plate is removed, ready access may be had to the interior of the magazine.

. The barrel A has an enlarged part '1', forming a shoulder-against which the restoringspring bears. Said barrel is adapted to slide backward and forward within the sleeve M and as far backward as to abut against the rear wall of the magazine. It carries the trigger or operating-ring l). The part 5 is provided with a screw j, the head whereof tended to give a swing motion to the ejector II and to act as a stop.

The spring R bears at one end against the part 11, as just mentioned, and at the other end against a shoulder m on the sleeve. The

shoulder m may be arranged, according to requirements, nearer to or farther from the breech. The spring also presses against the end K of the arm K of the hammer, by which of the ejector H.

slides in the slot h in the sleeve and is inthe latter is given a power to recoil after the firing.. The hammer or firing-pin P is contained in the chamber L, which is closed at the end by a screw-plug ,The hammer is fixed to a disk P carrying ter. By said retrograde movement the spring E is compressed until the inclined plane 8 on. the'arm K, pressing against anotherplane 1,- formed in the slot orgroove in which said plane s moves, causes the arm to slip out of the notch 12- and allows it-to be automatically projected forward together with the hammer by the reaction of the spring E, when its extremity K is acted upon by the spring'R,

which causes it to recoil, so that the hammer is withdrawn from the breech.

The magazine is located .in the butt perpendicularly to the axis of the barrel. I11 its rear sides are two grooves r1, actin gas guides for the flanges of the cartridges in their ascensional n10 vemen t. F, which slides in the grooves 'r r, is actuated by a helical spring Q, held by a screw-plug 0, inside of a split tube 2,-withii1 the inner side of the solid rear wall of the magazine. The ejector II is a spring fixed bya screwpivot 10 upon the right wall of the body of the arm.. It has two inclined surfaces -h"h, on which bears the stop-screw j, so as to communicate a swing motion to it. I I I (Z is a tooth formed ontheejector II and having a trainer rounded surface on its front side presented to the barrel. This tooth serves to deliverthc cartridge issuing from the magazine in front of the barrel and maintain it in that position until the moment of firing. It clears thebarrel laterally when the barrel makes its retrograde movement by reason of the rear edge or end ofthe barrel pressing against the rounded surface of the tooth, thus forcing it, laterally, and takes its place above the next succeeding cartridge, and after firing effects the ejection of the spent cartridge-shell on the'barrel returning to its forward position.

, A second .tooth maybe placed below the fi-r stin such position as to entirely claspthe cartridge next in succession and to facilitate its movement. I

lVhat I claim is' 1. In a firearm, the combination with the stock or body, of a longitudinally-reciprocating barrel, a spring acting thereon to move it forwardly, a spring-actuated reciprocating firing-pinarranged'in the body, an arm on said firing-pin, the breech end of the barrel The cartridge-elevatorbeing provided with a notch with which said arm is adapted to engage during the rearward movement of the barrel and to disengage from said notch when the barrel has reached the limit of its rearward movement, for the purpose specified.

2. In a firearm, the combination with the stock. or body, of a longitudinally-reciprocating barrel, a spring acting thereon tomovc zit forwardly, a springactuated reciprocating firing-pin arranged in the stock, an arm on saidfiring-pin having an inclined surface the breech end of the barrel having a notch with which said arm is adapted to engage during the rearward movement of the barrel, and the said body having an inclined surface adapted to engage the inclined surface of the arm to cause it to free the notch of the barr'elwhen the latter has reached the limit of its rearward movement, for the purpose specified.

3. The combination of an outer sleeve, av

spring-actuated reciprocating barrel in said sleeve, a magazine perpendicular to the barrel, a spring-actuated cartridge-feeder in the magazine, an ejector pivoted to the outer sleeve'a-nd having can1;surfaces toward one end, and a laterally-projecting tooth at the opposite end projecting intothebreech and adapted to be operated by the rear end of the barrel as described, a pin on the barrel to- .ward one end and extending through-the sleeve andadapted to engage the cam-surfaces of the e ector in the manner specified,

for the purpose set forth.

* t. In a firearm, the combination or anouter sleeve, a barrel longitudinally reciprocating therein, a spring'aeting uponsaid barrelas described, a spring-controlled firing-pin, an arm on said pin, cam-surfaces onthe arm, notches in said arm and inner barrel, magai zine perpendicularto the 'barrel 'aspringcontrolled cartridge-feeder,an ej cetor having cam-surfaces, a pin or projection onthe-innor barrel acting upon said cam-surfaces, and

a projection on the ejectorcxtending into the breech, as and for the purpose specified. In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand in the presence of the two subscribing witnesses. p

' 1 PAUL BR'UN LATRIGE.

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F. AULAINER, HASTINGS BURROUGHs.

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